Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely.….

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She unde….

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast..

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue..

I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po.

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And some….

For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to….

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?.

You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on..

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die..

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd clim….

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers..

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things..

Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere..

My life is an apology for the life of my father..

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read..

You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?" "I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondere….

Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your ….

Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed.….

Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches..

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectat….